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224-TJ. Any judge of election, or other person, who shall
violate any of the provisions of this sub-title, or who shall
tamper with, or injure, or attempt to injure, any voting
machine to be used or being used in an election, or who shall
prevent,. or attempt to prevent, the correct operation of such
machine, or any unauthorized person who shall make or have
in his possession a key to a voting machine to be used or being
used in an election, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and,
upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to undergo im-
prisonment for not more than one year, or to pay a fine not
exceeding one thousand dollars ($ 1, 000), or both, in the dis-
cretion of the court.

224-V. Except as modified by the provisions of this sub-
title, the general laws regulating general, municipal, primary,
special, and other elections shall apply to all such elections
held in the City of Baltimore.

224-W. If any of the provisions of this sub-title shall be
judicially declared to be invalid or unconstitutional, the re-
maining provisions thereof shall not be thereby affected, but
shall remain in full force and effect.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all sections of this
Article and all laws or portions of laws inconsistent with or
in conflict with the provisions hereof are hereby repealed to
the extent of such inconsistency or conflict.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law within the scope and meaning
of Chapter 5 of the Laws of Maryland, Special Session 1936,
and necessary as a police measure for the immediate regula-
tion of elections in Baltimore City; and having been passed by
"yea" and "nay" vote supported by three-fifths of all of the
members elected to each of the two Houses of the General
Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of its
passage.

Approved March 24, 1937.

CHAPTER 95.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections (i
and 7 of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1924 Edition and 1935 Supplement), title "Elections, " sub-